Agents Required
Firewalls and SIEM tools can’t inspect DER protocols like IEEE 2030.5, SunSpec, Modbus, OCPP and others. They don’t understand power system physics. An attacker manipulating your grid looks like normal traffic.
Detects: Malware, phishing, port scans
Misses: Grid manipulation commands, firmware attacks
Built for SCADA/PLC environments. Not designed for distributed DER fleets. Require agents on each device — impractical for 10,000+ inverters and energy assets connected to the grid.
Requires: Agent per device Scales to: ~100s of endpoints, not 100,000s
Detects: Protocol attacks, firmware manipulation, Power IOCs Scales to: 100,000+ endpoints, agentless
Command injection, firmware tampering, protocol manipulation, unauthorized control sequences, man-in-the-middle attacks on DER communications, and coordinated fleet-level attacks.
Splunk · Sentinel · QRadar
AI/ML · Physics IOC · Protocol DPI · <1s latency
IEEE 2030.5 · DNP3 · Modbus · OCPP
HIL/SIL · Simulation · Pre-deploy validation
Inverters · BESS · EV Chargers · Meters · VPPs